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So I scaled back after that.
And then once Elon took over, it sort of all fractured.
And so I'll follow Twitter and I'll especially follow, I do political Twitter.
I force myself to have half of my people are
Blue, half a red, and some of the MAGA people really annoy me, but it's important that I encounter them.
And then I do AI Twitter, and I do New York Mets Twitter, which is my baseball team.
So I do that.
I don't doβI haven't been on Facebook in years.
I've never been on Instagram.
I'm not on TikTok.
I find it too addictive.
And so my social media is down.
And I find, like your sonβ
A lot of young people understand what's happening.
They don't need Jonathan Haidt, God bless him for what he's doing, but they don't need him to explain what's happening.
And I visit a lot of high schools every year, and I've never met a student that's not happy with the phone bans.
They love the phone bans.
And your son is right to be suspicious of AI, using it as a cognitive crutch, because it really is going to be damaging.
Yeah.
In that circumstance, I always say, asking what do I want to do with my life is too big a question.